Lisa Roecker

I was so surprised when I found out that the first book in this trilogy, The Liar Society, was so unbelievably amazing. It reminded me so much of Veronica Mars that I just fell in love with the characters and plot line instantly. I luckily can say that Lies That Bind, is as amazing as the first book. You get so much more Seth in this book than the last and oh my goodness I LOVE him. He's such a stalker which sounds bad but if you haven't met him then you don't know how awesome he is. He has show more the funniest moments ever.

Nothing goes right for Kate. It's seriously giving me anxiety. I can't see it ending well in the next book because everything bad that could happen has happened. Also, her parents are annoying me to the max. They need to actually listen to their daughter. I wish she would tell them what she has had to experience but no. She can't trust them. Her best friend died a year ago. YOU move on.

I wanted her to curse out a lot of people to just get to the truth already or just kill someone... That sounds bad but sheesh. The authors are tormentors and cruel people... So happy it kept up with the awesomeness of the last book. They had me fooled again. This book had the same intense, on the edge of your seat feel as the last one. I loved every minute of it. show less

I refused to put this book down. I started reading it Saturday before I came to work, read it during work, and finished around 2AM Sunday morning. I fell in love with Kate and Liam, and reveled in a mystery I didn't figure out by page 20. The Sisters Roecker have a fabulous flair for teenage voice and know how to spin a story. I'm stoked for the next book in the series!

You know what I miss? I miss those fun little high school mystery books that I used to read when I was a teen. The ones where you're just as clueless as the MC, so you're having to figure out and guess right along with the main character. You know what I'm talking about, right? Well, fortunately for us, Lisa and Laura Roecker have brought that back with their debut novel, The Liar Society.

Set in a boarding school, this book has all of the potential to be a run-of-the-mill boarding school show more book where the main girl is popular with all the hot guys, but the mean girls don't like her and all she wants is a true friend... yadda yadda yadda. Yet again, the authors surprise us by taking the boarding school premise and making it so much more than that. We have a main character who's distraught by her best friend's death and, when receiving e-mails from said dead best friend, she does everything in her power to try and find out what the friend is trying to telling her. What ensues is a story full of adventure and mystery, with a hint of romance and wit added right along with it.

Kate is a wonderfully written MC and I love that they make her such a powerful female in this book - she's got the looks, the attitude and the wit. Plus, there's this sense of undying loyalty for her best friend in the book that just makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside. I think Kate and her two sidekicks, Liam and Seth, are an amazing trio that work well together. Seth is that guy next door that you can always depend on and Liam is that bad boy that makes your little heart go pitter-patter. Their dynamic together is nothing short of amazingly perfect. I also liked that some of the characters weren't as shallow as they seemed as first and were developed extremely well through the story where it wasn't necessarily told that they weren't as horrible as you thought, you actually saw through their actions how they truly were. Of course, there were some jerks.. but it might surprise you who those jerks really are. Or not.

This is definitely more of a character-driven book, but the plot was not lacking in any way. I loved the use of the flashbacks to show Kate's relationship with her best friend Grace before she died. I also loved the boarding school with all of its rich history and detail. Kate's quest to find out about her friend is endearing and the ending is unexpectedly bittersweet. However, there is closure and a definite hint at another book to follow - one that I will definitely be picking up as soon as it becomes available. show less

Ooh, I do love a good mystery, and THE LIAR SOCIETY totally hit to spot! When her best friend in the whole world dies in a terrible accident, Kate has a hard time picking up the pieces, especially since her other friend abandoned her that night, too. One year later, Kate's still working through her pain but slowly moving on. Until she gets a mysterious email from her dead best friend.

Kate's a great character - brave and gung-ho, stubborn and (dare I say it?) plucky. Yep, I said it. She's show more plucky, just the kind of girl I like to root for. She's been through hell and is working her way back to normal, despite her parents eyeing her strangely (worried she's going to "relapse" into her post-Grace depression) and the kids at school giving her a hard time. Sure, she rebels a bit (if you can call dyeing your hair pink rebelling) but can you blame her? Kate rocks, and I love how she goes after the mystery "Grace" presents her.

And then there's the mystery. From the get-go, I had a ton of questions - the mark of a great mystery to me. As Kate works through the clues Grace sends her, she dives deeper and deeper into the secrets surrounding Grace's death and their school. Ooh, and there are so many secrets hidden throughout this old institution. Secret societies, passageways, cover-ups, and symbols. Kate may have been forced into detective-mode but she's darned good at uncovering the truths (yes, there's more than one mystery here), even those that are buried deep.

Multi-layered and intricately woven, this story will leave mystery lovers completely satisfied. Read it. You'll love it. As for me, I'm hoping to see a lot more of Kate in the future. Really, I have no idea if Kate will reappear in another book but I sure hope she does. One of the things I've been missing in YA is a straight-up mystery. Not that I don't love paranormal and fantasy and all that, but mystery's one of my favorite genres. Yay for THE LIAR SOCIETY! show less